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Through The Years: The ’90s (40 Years of Arkansas Business)
See highlights from Arkansas Business from 1990-1999. read more >
Through The Years: The ’80s (40 Years of Arkansas Business)
See highlights from Arkansas Business from its beginning in 1984 through 1989. read more >
Hussman Reflects After 48 Years at Democrat-Gazette
Walter Hussman Jr., 75, is ending 48 years as publisher of the Democrat-Gazette at the end of this year, with news of his successor expected soon. read more >
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Reporting for America, And a Hungry Fort Smith
Report for America, a nongovernment service program to improve local news coverage, has partnered with newsrooms across America to beef up reporting on under-covered issues and communities. read more >
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Jonesboro Sun Building’s Sale Reflects New Economy of News
The paper is among many that have sought savings in a deeply besieged industry where readers, advertisers and revenue have been fleeing to the web. read more >
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Phillips Media of Harrison Buys Gannett’s Baxter Bulletin
Gannett, the publisher of USA Today, sells the Bulletin and four Missouri newspapers to Phillips Media Group of Harrison for an undisclosed sum. read more >
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Publisher Jennifer Allen Finds Her Voice
Not long after Jennifer Allen lost her job running the Hot Springs Village Voice for Gannett, she got a call from an executive at the company asking if she’d ever considered buying the paper she had worked for since 2007. read more >
Hussman and Tate’s Plan to Save Pine Bluff’s Paper
Byron Tate has a simple reason to be back as editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial, where he has worked three times before. read more >
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Democrat-Gazette Acquires Pine Bluff Commercial, Plans Digital Replica
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman extends his new business model for newspapering to Pine Bluff, announcing that his Wehco Media Inc. of Little Rock is acquiring the once-storied Pine Bluff Commercial from Gannett. read more >
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Arkansas News Outlets Assert Physical Presence
The Helena World is headed back to its old orbit, and a growing digital news outlet in Magnolia is putting down brick-and-mortar roots, company owners say. read more >
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Daily Papers in Free Fall Despite COVID-19 Readership
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, daily newspapers enjoy their largest readership in years, but an eroding ad-based business model seems to be washing away altogether. read more >
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Ad, PR Pros Connect While Keeping Their Distance
How some of the state's advertising, marketing and public relations businesses are keeping the messages flowing during the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Clinton, Parade of Journalists Celebrate Arkansas Gazette’s 200th
Bill Clinton and a parade of venerable newspaper folks throw a 200th birthday party for a state treasure, the old Arkansas Gazette. read more >
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GateHouse Deal Leaves Wreckage in Its Wake
After nearly four years fighting a battle of attrition as managing editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial, John Worthen is done with what he called “the madness” of leading a skeleton crew delivering news to Jefferson County. read more >
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In Merger Run-Up, GateHouse Is Closing Papers in Stuttgart, Helena
In the run-up to a $1.4 billion merger with Gannett that would create the nation's biggest newspaper chain, GateHouse Media Inc. is closing two Arkansas papers, the Stuttgart Daily Leader and the semi-weekly Helena World. read more >
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Will Fortune Favor the Future of News?
Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman has staked his paper’s future on readers taking the iPad path to daily news. That change in our reading habits have coincided with another sign of the apocalypse for daily papers, the $1.4 billion merger of America’s two largest newspaper chains, Gannett and GateHouse. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Just My Luck (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
The vast majority of daily local newspapers are cash-starved — the first industry to starve to death when consumer demand for its product is at an all-time high. read more >
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Bad News, Good News And Business Models
Wehco Media is converting two south Arkansas dailies into weeklies, and a hedge fund-owned group is out to buy the big news chain Gannett. read more >
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Former Interim Chief Marty Schack Will Lead KTHV
Marty Schack, a broadcast advertising sales veteran who served as interim general manager at KTHV-TV last year, has been named as the Little Rock CBS affiliate's president and general manager. read more >
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Roy Reed, Mainstay of Arkansas Journalism, Dies at 87
Roy Reed, a Garland County native whose writings chronicled the civil rights movement for The New York Times and illuminated Arkansas history in well-crafted and often funny books about former Gov. Orval Faubus and the Arkansas Gazette, died Sunday in Fayetteville. read more >
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